VEGA=EXPEDIFTIONENS VEPTENSKAPLIGA ARBETEN. 461 
"Genus Axinella 0. S. 
Axinella rugosa Bow. (0. 5.) 
Dictyocylindrus rugosus, Bowerbank, Mon. Brit. Spong., II, pag. 119. IIT, 
Plate 20, fig. 1—4. 
Azxinelia rugosa, O. Schmidt, Grundzäge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atl. Ge- 
Pietest pag. OL PL ATäoN 5. 
This species is represented by five specimens; all these 
specimens differ from the Swedish ones. Their branches are 
joined in such a manner as to make the sponge look very like 
Phakellia ventilabrum DL. (Bow.). Four specimens are infundibuli- 
form, the largest being about 90 mm in height, and the greatest 
diameter of the funnel 30 mm. 
abiat. sGreenland, Lat: 59-33 N-> Long. 43? 25 W., depth 
120 fathoms (576 5); East-coast of Greenland, depth 130 fath., 
(305) 
Axinelia vermiculata Bow. var. erecta Carter. 
Hymeraplua vermiculata, Bow. var. erecta Carter, Ann. ard Mag. Nat. Hist., 
Ser. 4, Vol. 18, 1876. — Desecrip. 
and fig. of deep-sea sponges and 
their spicules from the Atl. Oc.. 
dredged up on board H. M. S. 
»Porcupine>, chiefly in 1869, pag. 
307, Plate 12, fig. 14 and Plate 15, 
118, 202 
The above-mentioned species is represented by eight spe- 
cimens well preserved. The largest is pedicelled, branching 
irregularly, the branches being very thick. This specimen is 
100 mm in height. The branches are more or less compressed, 
anastomosing. The other specimens are less complicated, 
forming only one branch, slightly inflated at the termination. 
'The specimens of this form agree with the figure, which 
Carter Has. owven of this interesting sponge. The surface 
is very hispid, furrowed, the furrows being covered with the 
thin, reticulate dermal membrane. The spicules are like those 
described and figured by Carter. I have often seen these 
spicules divided in two branches at the one point. 
The colour is yellowish white or yellowish grey. 
